“People’s
Habits tell a lot about them.Not just their “bad” habits, but also
such habits as what they pay attention to, what they care about, and how they decide things.These are mental habits.Some mental habits are very deep on a person.Trying to change them is like trying to change the stripes on a tiger—like trying
to change the grain in a piece of wood. “ (Lawrence, Gordon, People Types and Tiger Stripes , 1991)

Understanding
your personality type and others can help you better understand your strengths and needs and that of others better, hopefully
enabling you to be more successful in life.

We are going
to work through 4 charts and you are going to try and write down the descriptors on the one side or the other that best describe
you.This can sometimes be challenging as we have all learned things from different
people and sometimes it is difficult to pick your gut reaction which is most true to who you are.There are no “right” answers, just try to be honest with yourself.

Extroverted or Introverted

Extroverted

Introverted

Likes
action and variety

Likes
quiet time to consider things

Likes
to do mental work by talking to people

Likes
to do mental work privately before talking

Acts
quickly, sometimes without much reflection

May
be slow to try something without understanding it first

Likes
to see how other people do a job, and to see results

Likes
to undertand the idea of a job and work alone or with just a few people

Wants
to know what other people expect of him/her

Wants
to set his/her own standards

More
comfortable with the outside world

More
comfortable with inner world

Gain
energy by being around people

Gain
energy by being alone

Sensing or Intuitive

Sensing

Intuitive

Pays most attention
to experience as it is Now

Pays most attention
to the meaning of facts and how they fit together

Likes to use
senses to find out what is happening

Likes to use
imagination to come up with new ways to do things—new possibilities

Dislikes new
problems unless there are standard ways to solve them

Likes solving
new problems, and dislikes doing the same things over

Enjoys using
skills already learned more than learning new ones

Likes using
new skills more than practicing old ones

Is patient
with details but impatient when the details get complicated

Is impatient
with details but doesn’t mind complicated situations

Pays more attention
to facts coming from personal experience

Pays more attention
to meaning behind the facts

See details

See “big
picture”

Thinking or Feeling

Thinking

Feeling

Likes to decide
things logically

Likes to decide
things with personal feelings and human values, even if they aren’t logical

Wants to be
treated with justice and fair play

Likes praise
and likes to please people, even in unimportant things

May neglect
or hurt other people’s feelings without knowing it

Is aware of
other people’s feelings

Gives more
attention to ideas or things than to human relationships

Can predict
how others will feel

Doesn’t
need harmony

Gets upset
by arguments and conflicts; values harmony

Makes decisions
by examining data (impersonal, cool)

Makes decisions
by paying attention to personal values and feelings

Judging
or Perceiving

Judging

Perceiving

Likes to have
a plan, have things settled and decided ahead

Likes to stay
flexible and avoid fixed plans

Tires to make
things come out the way they “ought to be”

Deals easily
with unplanned and unexpected happenings

Likes to finish
one project before starting another

Likes to start
manay projects but may have difficulty finishing them all